General noncompliance with the privacy, security, and transaction regulations result in in $100 fine per violation, up to $25,000 per violation for identical violations in a calendar year. Specific to the Privacy Rule , a $50,000 fine and imprisonment for one year for intentional disclosures.
The brief, decisive war with Spain transformed the United States into a two-ocean empire. In addition to occupying Cuba, Washington annexed Puerto Rico and Hawaii and seized control of Guam and the Philippines.
The United States embargo against Cuba (in Cuba called el bloqueo, the blockade) is a commercial, economic, and financial embargo imposed by the United States on Cuba.he United States imposed an arms embargo on Cuba on 14 March 1958 during the armed conflict between rebels led by Fidel Castro and the Fulgencio Batista regime.